Copilot Notebooks adds mind maps for licensed users
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Microsoft said on 11 June 2026 that Copilot Notebooks is rolling out to Copilot Chat commercial and education users. The June update also highlights notebooks inside the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and OneNote, with standard-source limits for Copilot Chat users and premium-source access for Microsoft 365 Copilot users. Microsoft’s support guidance describes mind maps in notebooks as interactive visual maps of key topics and relationships that can be explored, explained in chat, and exported as PNG files.
Before this rollout, many Copilot adopters treated notebooks as a better place to collect source material for summaries and drafts. That helped with context, but it still left users reading through long notes to spot the structure of an issue. Mind maps make notebooks more useful as a review step. Instead of asking Copilot to jump straight from source material to a polished answer, users can inspect the themes, missing links, and awkward groupings first, which is often where weak Copilot work starts.
Analysis
Use one active project notebook to generate a mind map before asking Copilot for a summary or plan. If the map misses an important topic, add or remove sources before moving on to the finished output.
Source note
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